Support Your Prophet—Peace and blessings be Upon Him

Al-Qaeda 2.0 ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 169-184
Author(s):  
Cerwyn Moore
Keyword(s):  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
Central Command ◽  
The West ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Support For Democracy ◽  
Charlie Hebdo

In this video message, Zawahiri celebrates the attack on the headquarters of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and is quick to claim credit for it on behalf of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. This of course comes at a time when Al-Qaeda’s central command is broadly seen as inactive and marginalized. He focuses on alleged double standards of the West regarding its support for democracy, tracing, as always, his grievances back to colonial times, whilst emphasizing more normative components of this grievance, with an obvious focus on the prohibition of ridiculing the prophet. He reiterates his criticism of the transgressors in Syria, noting that the route taken by IS contravenes the more inclusive plan for caliphate creation drafted by bin Ladin.

Baku hopes Islamism will buttress Azerbaijani regime

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Relevant Factor ◽  
The West ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government ◽  
Policy Shifts ◽  
Charlie Hebdo

Subject Indications from reactions to the Charlie Hebdo incident in Paris of a shift in Azerbaijan's geopolitical orientation. Significance The January 7 terrorist attacks in Paris against the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket received international condemnation. While Baku joined international public opinion in denouncing the attacks, official and semi-official outlets variously justified the attacks or claimed Western anger was tantamount to 'double standards'. Among the population, internet reactions echoed similar themes on social media, and religious protesters held rallies against Charlie Hebdo. While Azerbaijan and its regime are typically portrayed as models of absolutist secularism, reactions to the Paris attacks -- and foreign policy shifts in the past year -- indicate that political Islam is becoming an increasingly relevant factor in politics. Impacts The government will continue and probably increase its use of Islamic language and justifications as part of its campaign against the West. Yet at the same time, the authorities will continue to burnish their secular credentials in English-language and international outlets. Azerbaijan-Iran relations will continue in a positive trajectory. The regime will be willing to incorporate elements of Iranian Shia Islamism as a means of buttressing its security.

Shipped but Not Sold

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Um
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
The West ◽  
Commercial Society ◽  
The Indian Ocean

In the early decades of the eighteenth century, Yemen hosted a lively community of merchants that came to the southern Arabian Peninsula from the east and the west, seeking, among other products, coffee, at a time when this new social habit was on the rise. Shipped but not Sold argues that many of the diverse goods that these merchants carried, bought, and sold at the port, also played ceremonial, social, and utilitarian roles in this intensely commercial society that was oriented toward the Indian Ocean. Including sumptuous foreign textiles and robes, Arabian horses, porcelain vessels, spices, aromatics, and Yemeni coffee, these items were offered, displayed, exchanged, consumed, or utilized by major merchants in a number of socially exclusive practices that affirmed their identity and status, but also sustained the livelihood of their business ventures. These traders invested these objects with layers of social meaning through a number of repetitive ceremonial exercises and observances, in addition to their everyday protocols of the trade. This study looks at what happened to these local and imported commodities that were diverted from the marketplace to be used for a set of directives that were seemingly quite non-transactional.

A Renewed Al-Qaeda: Strategizing for a Comeback

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-93
Author(s):  
Farhan Zahid
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
Osama Bin Laden ◽  
The Times ◽  
As If

Al-Qaeda, the premier global jihadist terrorist entity having its footprints in more than 60 countries and responsible for perpetrating the world's hitherto biggest terrorist attacks of 9/11, appears to have adopted a strategy of working in tandem with local Islamist-jihadist groups. This may be regarded as a strategic shift from directing and masterminding international terrorist attacks to collusion with its associated networks, such as Al-Shabab in Somalia and the Taliban in Afghanistan, and promoting local jihadists in Yemen, Sinai, Syria, and West Africa. Al-Qaeda‟s local chapters such as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) are also working alongside local Al-Qaeda linked Islamist groups. It appears as if Al-Qaeda no longer subscribes to the approach it adhered to during the times of its former Emir Osama Bin Laden and has substantially re-crafted its strategy under Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Issues in the Syntax of Polarity-Sensitive Items

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Ahmad Alqassas
Keyword(s):  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
The West ◽  
Polarity Sensitivity ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Polarity Sensitive

This chapter provides an overview of PSIs (polarity-sensitive items) in Arabic and briefly outlines the critical issues in the syntax of PSIs in Arabic and their contributions to Arabic syntax and linguistic theory. It also outlines the theoretical underpinnings of research on Arabic negation, relying on the author’s most recent publications. The author synthesizes the major and crucial findings from cross-linguistic studies on this topic and studies of PSIs in Arabic. This chapter also articulates the critical issues, methodology, and scope of content. A quick overview of polarity sensitivity reveals much of the microvariation in Arabic. Geographically, this variation comparatively grows at the phonetic, morphological, and lexical levels, moving from the west with the Moroccan dialect, into Egyptian and Jordanian along the Mediterranean, into the Arabian Peninsula with Qatari Arabic, and into the formal written Arabic.

Breaking the Yemen–Al Qaeda Connection

2003 ◽  
Vol 102 (660) ◽  
pp. 40-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark N. Katz
Keyword(s):  
Al Qaeda ◽  
The West ◽  
The Government

It is the tribal view that the ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’—more so than common religious and ideological affinities or hostility toward the West—that motivates certain Yemeni tribes to cooperate with Al Qaeda. … Al Qaeda is merely the most recent in a string of ‘friends’ who have supported these tribes against the government.

Considering the military-media nexus from the perspective of competing groups: the case of ISIS and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Winkler ◽  
Kareem El-Damanhoury ◽  
Aaron Dicker ◽  
Yennhi Luu ◽  
Wojciech Kaczkowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals Development of Heritage Places under Unesco Guidelines Case Study: Al Maliha Neighbourhood in Riyadh City

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Hind Abdel Moneim Khogali
Keyword(s):  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Riyadh City ◽  
The North ◽  
Heritage Area

Riyadh, capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is the largest city in the Kingdom. It is also the capital of Riyadh Province, and is located in the historical regions of Najd and Al-Yamama and in the center of the Arabian Peninsula, on a vast plateau. Densely populated, with over 5.7 million people, it is the urban center of a region with about 7.3 million people. It consists of 15 municipal districts under the management of Riyadh Municipality, headed by the mayor of Riyadh, and the Riyadh Development Authority, chaired by the Governor of Riyadh Province.This research aims at dealing with the development of Al Maliha Neighborhood, as a case study of development of heritage places.Al Maliha neighbourhood is located in the center of Riyadh, bounded on the north by AL Jomla Suq and market, in the south by Al Salam garden, in the west by King Fahad Street and in the east by warehouses and a school from the south. There are also old heritage houses in the southeast of the area. The proposed project will develop the old heritage area, re-use it as a Heritage Museum, and demolish the warehouses to establish new galley rooms and Heritage research center.The research methodology will follow the UNESCO regulations and guidelines followed for conservation of heritage places. It will also adopt Riyadh Municipality, and the Riyadh Development Authority regulations for the development of heritage places. The project is proposed for architectural students at level four in Dar Al Uloom University, to be completed within four months and presented for Prince Sultan Award 2006 for Heritage.The aim of the research is to follow the KSA strategy in protecting and maintaining historical places like Al Daraya, old palaces and old mosques. The project will give a proposal study in managing and developing heritage places, by following the UNESCO guideline for heritage places and Riyadh Municipality regulations.The research outlines conclusions and recommendations to decision makers, for application in the development of Al Maliha neighbourhood applied in developing Al Maliha neighbourhood

Salafi Formations in Palestine and the Limits of a De-Palestinised Milieu

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled Hroub
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
The West ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
Marginal Power

A Palestinian version of the contemporary Salafi interpretation of Islam, intimately linked to Saudi Wahhabism, appeared in the Gaza Strip in the early 1970s. Deliberately distancing themselves from Palestinian politics, and from the struggle with Israel, the Palestinian Salafis in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip or inside Israel, remained a marginal power. Yet by the late 1990s and since the early 2000s they have become more visible and part of their formation has started to show signs of militancy. Currently, they are divided between a mainstream apolitical branch and more militant ‘Jihadi Salafi’ bents echoing the global rise of Al-Qaeda. This article attempts to chart the Palestinian Salafi terrain and their changing fortunes in the light of their perception of ‘Palestine and the Palestinian identity’.

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